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Old 20-06-2012, 10:17   #1
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Amazing Highly Detailed Global Surface Currents by NASA

Wow.

Highly detailed surface ocean currents video by NASA



If you have good bandwidth here is NASA page with more detail and other views....

http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a000000/a003800/a003827/
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Old 20-06-2012, 10:21   #2
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Re: Amazing highly detailed global surface currents by nasa

Ok...so thats cool!
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Re: Amazing highly detailed global surface currents by nasa

i had wondered about how a warm current can disappear over a short period like a couple of weeks, that video shows it in action, getting sucked into a different venturi effect as the temperatures change.

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Old 15-10-2012, 00:11   #4
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Re: Amazing Highly Detailed Global Surface Currents by NASA

Fantastic video!
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